Confirmation that we must not excuse ourselves from Martyrdom for the sake of the Christ. If therefore God has shown us about the Resurrec- tion by means of an irrational animal, much more we who believe in the Resurrection of God and in the promise of God, if martyrdom come upon, us as on men worthy of all this glory of God, shall receive the incorruptible crown in eternal life, and in the glorious honour of the martyrdom of God ;